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Barbara Bigelow1, Margarete Arndt
1Clark University, Graduate School of Management, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA. bbigelow@clarku.edu
The Journal of Health Administration Education
|January 14, 2004
Summary
Healthcare executives struggle to access and use management research due to relevance and timeliness issues. Research needs to be more practical and timely to meet the needs of busy leaders.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Management
- Organizational Behavior
Background:
- Healthcare executives utilize
- googling,
- trade journals, and business literature for research.
- They find academic healthcare management research often inaccessible.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify the barriers preventing healthcare executives from accessing and utilizing health management research.
- To understand the information needs of healthcare leaders for organizational performance.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative interviews with healthcare organization executive directors.
Main Results:
- Executives prioritize practical, actionable information over theoretical research.
- Significant delays in research publication render findings outdated for decision-making.
- The time required to read research articles is a major deterrent for time-constrained managers.
Conclusions:
- A gap exists between the information needs of healthcare executives and the content/timeliness of published research.
- Healthcare management research must become more relevant, accessible, and timely to be effectively utilized by leaders.